High Court grants a series of orders against defendant lay litigant in the context of judgment proceedings - preventing him from taking any further legal proceedings against the plaintiff bank without prior leave of the High Court and from acting as a 'McKenzie friend' by supporting others in the context of their own legal court proceedings in the future, on the grounds that his conduct throughout the litigation has been abusive, threatening and vexatious, which has resulted in a waste of court time.
Application to restrain party from issuing further proceedings against plaintiff without court's prior permission - application to restrain party from acting as a 'mckenzie friend' - party previously pleaded guilty to criminal contempt of court - second criminal contempt process found party guilty - acting as 'litigation agent' for co-defendant - third criminal contempt - series of apologies to the courts - other proceedings involving party - principles to be applied on applications for isaac wunder orders - whether proceedings brought without any reasonable ground(s) - recent caselaw - party has written abusive disparaging and threatening correspondence - highly abusive to other parties in litigation - lack of respect - contempt - scandalous vexatious and abuse of process proceedings brought by party - waste of court time - attack on plaintiff's legal representatives abhorrent - order granted - injunction from attending at bank location - High Court practice direction on scope of activities of 'McKenzie friends' - open to court to permanently injunct a person from acting as a 'mckenzie friend' - party is entirely unsuitable to so act - disrespect for court - appropriate order in circumstances is to permanently injunct.